AET. 9 PLIES OF THE GENUS STYLOGASTER xiLDRICH 13 



ceived from Dr. O. Krober) ; 4 Pemberton, Wenonah, and Riverton, 

 N. J. (G. M. Greene) ; 3 Castle Kock, Pa. (G. M. Greene) ; 2, Au- 

 burndale, Mass. (C. W. Johnson) ; 1 College Park, Md. (G. M. 

 Greene) ; 5 near Plummer Island, Va. (H. L. Viereck) ; 4 Falls 

 Church, Va. (Nathan Banks and E. A. Chaj^in) ; 1 Magnolia, 

 W. Va. (R. C. Shannon) ; 1 Anderson, Indiana (J. M. Aldrich) j 

 1 Onaga, Kansas (Crevecoeur) ; 1 without locality. 



STYLOGASTER MINUTA Townsend 



Sti/logaste?- minuta Townsend, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, voL 

 19, 1897, p. 27.— Krobek, Entom. Mitteilungen, vol. 3, 1914, p. 348; 

 Archiv Naturgescb., vol. 83, 1917 (1919), p. 43. 



Male. — Front rather narrow, frontal triangle shining black, reach- 

 ing about halfway to lunule, remainder of the front rather uniform 

 dark brown, hardly at all paler anteriorly ; jfirst antennal joint white, 

 second brown, third reddish yellow, broadly infuscated at apex. 

 Proboscis yellow almost to middle of basal joint. Mesonotum sub- 

 shining black, the humeri white with only a narrow pale margin 

 behind and mesially. Mesopleura dark brown to sternopleura. Pos- 

 terior part of mesonotum opaque brownish, scutellum almost of the 

 same color. Middle portion of metanotum black. Humeral 1; 

 notopleural 2; supraalar 1. 



Abdomen blackish, the second, third, and fourth segments with 

 uninterrupted pale crossband basally which becomes slightly wider 

 at the sides. First segment narrowly white at base, the lateral 

 bristles black and rather stout, arising from a distinctly blackish 

 spot; second segment with a single row of black lateral bristles; 

 fifth segment shining blackish with only a slight basal, paler band, 

 which encroaches a little on the preceding segment in the middle; 

 sixth segment short, black; seventh segment also black. Genitalia 

 yellow, the posterior forceps fleshy and thick, approximated to each 

 other in most of their length. The last sternite has a very distinct 

 rounded excavation in the middle, on each side of which is a striking 

 patch of small black setules. 



Front and middle legs pale j^ellow; tarsi a little darker; front 

 coxae with some black bristles at apex in front and behind; hind 

 femora brown with a lighter brown annulus in the middle and with 

 dense pile below and on inner side to about the middle; hind tibia 

 light brownish yellow with only a very faint trace of subapical 

 lighter annulus ; hind tarsi black. 



Wing brownish, first posterior cell of the same width as the sub- 

 marginal; second vein quite short, tip nearer the base of the wing 

 than the anterior end of the posterior crossvein. 



Female. — Front tibiae with rather striking long, pale, apical, 

 bristles, two somewhat united and usually longer than half the 



